cost the GOPers and threw the elections in Clinton's favor. The overwhelming analyses of this issue hint that at "best", Perot's candidacies were political washes and at "worst", they worked slightly against Clinton. Of course that begs the question: So, from whence the myth? Most objectives agree that it's been promulgated by "sour grapes" GOPers, hoping to rationalized Bush's and Dole's losses, whilst diminishing the significance of Clinton's victories.